OCD and Exam Time: How to Help your Teen
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OCD and Exam Time: How to Help your Teen

Teens with OCD might struggle during exam time. It is a high stress time. Internal resources are running low. As a parent or loved one, you want to help them. What can you do? What happens to adolescents and teenagers during exam time? The end of the school year is often met with delight and…

It’s All in the Family: OCD and the Importance of Family Work During Treatment for OCD
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It’s All in the Family: OCD and the Importance of Family Work During Treatment for OCD

Treatment for OCD involves many important aspects. Families with loved ones with OCD often face challenges in their relationships due to the interference of OCD beliefs and rituals. Treatment for OCD can help. People will say their partners are frustrated with them because their rituals take up a lot of time. Partners might also be…

OCD treatment: Finding our “new normal” in ERP work
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OCD treatment: Finding our “new normal” in ERP work

I recently read two systematic review articles describing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on individuals with OCD. Systematic reviews are a type of article where the authors carefully search for all of the research on a topic, and then combine it in a scientifically rigorous way. One article focused on  young people and the…

OCD Subtypes: How important are they?
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OCD Subtypes: How important are they?

There are so many subtypes of OCD that people speak about nowadays. There are often the most common ones that quickly come to mind, such as contamination-related OCD, harm-related OCD and “just-right” OCD. But now there are also many other subtypes that people will speak about. A quick internet search turns up a whole variety…

Virtual Therapy Has No Limits
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Virtual Therapy Has No Limits

As more and more individuals across the globe have been able to access virtual therapy, we have learned a great deal about its benefits for clients. These have included: enhanced flexibility, increased accessibility and limitless creativity. I want to talk about the idea of limitless creativity today. When providing therapy for individuals with anxiety and…